Hearty Harpy thanks to Lindsey Samuels, for sending me a link to her list of “Top 10 Fictional Feminist Icons of All Time” on her site Library Science Degree.
As with any literary list, the best part is the discussion it generates. I think there are some controversial picks here. Scarlett...

Another DH Lawrence contender.
The literary section of the Guardian had done it again. Perhaps as a companion to their Bad Sex Award, there’s a new contest—for the most unintentionally hilarious title. Inadvertently lewd? Snigger-worthy? Send in your candidates for The Wankh Award!
The name...

The US edition of the first book of the Millenium Trilogy.
I have been meaning to write this post for a long time now, but held off until The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest*, the final installment of Steig Larsson’s Millenium Trilogy was finally published in the US. Starting with The Girl...

Such as.
I came across two new books yesterday that were immediately added to my birthday list, and that I think a lot of you will be interested in. One is more scholarly, and the other more pop, although they otherwise have a similar thrust that will seem familiar, given the conversations going on...

…how could you not like The Feminist Press?
In case you’re looking for something awesome to do in New York tonight, you might consider heading on out to Joe’s Pub (part of the Public Theatre) tonight from 6-8pm to celebrate the FP’s 40th Anniversary.
Advance tickets are sold out,...

Forget hiding in an attic for two years and dying of typhus at Bergen Belsen – what’s really offensive about Anne Frank’s experience was her awareness of her vagina. Some unfit asshole in Culpepper County, Virginia became scandalized by Frank’s mention of her genitalia in The...

I should have done this with my copy of Hemingway's short stories. Via linsomnia @ Flickr.
I love books, and I love talking about books, both good and bad, so I was tickled by GoodReads’ new, reader-compiled list “Books I Regret Reading.” It’s not a large-scale survey by any...

Emily Gould, of former Gawker fame and current proprietress of Emily Magazine, has written an article on More Intelligent Life entitled “What Are Women Fighting About?“ Before I even get to the meat of it, allow me to remark that though the title may not be Gould’s own fault, woe...

Via Yves. (in Vietnam) @ Flickr.
“The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.”
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Banned Books Week is afoot! BBW is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment....

Debs from 1937, unimpressed with this "advice." Via stonnington history centre @ Flickr
A couple weeks ago, a friend of mine in town for the summer showed me an antique book he had found on the shelves of the apartment he was house-sitting: Letters to a Debutante, an advice book for young...

Via ruminatrix @ Flickr.This weekend, as we celebrate our liberation from British tyranny, I will be spending some quality time on the beach–or the patio or the screened-in porch or the non-screened-in porch–with a stack of books. I bet you will too.
Publishers fall all over themselves to line...